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“There's no such thing as a limit on being the best. You can always go for more. That's what it means to be human. No... That's what it means to be me. - Claire Stanfield”
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“Her eyes narrowed until they were a faint greenish glitter, like a forest pool far back in the shadow of trees.”
― The Big Sleep
― The Big Sleep
“The Socialists have found good the equality, and bad the inequality. Good the servants and bad the tyrants. I crossed the threshold of good and evil in order to live my life intensely. I live today and can not await tomorrow. The wait is of peoples and of humanity, so could not be my affair.”
― The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore
― The Collected Writings of Renzo Novatore
“How little I myself really need, when people leave me alone, with the intellectual powers at work serenely. The drops of falling water, a few wild flowers with their priceless fragrance, even a few tufts of half-dead leaves, changing colour in the quiet of a room that has but light and shadow in it…”
― Marius the Epicurean
― Marius the Epicurean
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